Just in … FedEx MD11 crash lands and burns at Tokyo Narita airport. According to story below there is news footage of the crash
Japans NHK just showed the crash on a live interent feed. The plane was landing in strong winds - it looks like one wing clipped the ground and the aircraft rolled onto its back and exploded (very dramatic footage). No word on the condition of the 2 pilots yet.
Unreal!!! Surveillance video on FoxNews right now. Any word on the crew?
In all my years I have never seen anything bigger than a small recip have a landing like that. Wow, is all I can say.
does anybody have a link to the landing on liveatc?
OMG! That was sick. Poor bastards.
The MD-11 is not the easiest aircraft to land. This accident sounds similar to one at Newark back in July, 1997 in which the aircraft bounced and rolled right ending up inverted and on fire. Exactly like this accident. There is an “advanced landing technique” used by some companies which consists of “relaxing” back pressure(or pushing forward on the yoke) at about 10 ft. I believe the technique is to help avoid tail strikes, but I could see how it could lead to hard nose gear strike and porpoise. I’ll check with some friends and post more.
CNN is now reporting that pilot and co-pilot were both killed
I don’t think I’ve ever seen an American Airliner land like that before. Does anyone have a weather report from RJAA. And trust me, it’s not fun dealing with pax when CNN reports two different plane crashes 5 minutes apart.
This looks like basic pilot error but I’m not sure if they could have done a go-around, we’ll find out in a year.
Also, thoughts and prayers to those involved in this tragedy, I don’t want to sound inconsiderate, the tragedy of an aircrash is something this youn industry has to deal with everyday but it’s an industry that gets safer everyday. Hopefully we can learn from the mistakes here to make all of us safer in the future.
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Thanks JMEN, I definitly wouldn’t want to land in 40 kt gusts and if my math is correct, that is a 25 kt gust crosswind
this is so sad tough…
and here is a video of an aborted md-11 landing at Narita as a cause of high winds: jetvideos.net/video/view.php?id=609
NRT is almost as notorious for nasty crosswinds as the old Kai Tek.
Although I’ve never been there to see first hand, there are many photos at Kai Tek of some WICKED crosswind landings. Everyone knows the ANA 747 series of photos and video where he sets it down like 30* from runway heading, you had the short final, the mountains all around and then the winds off the water. Surprised there weren’t more, more dramatic accidents there than there were.
RIP to the crew of the FED EX flight.
Ouuuuuuch!
R.I.P.